Description
'This is a handy little techniques book for the andrology-spermatology laboratory. Methods for sperm evaluation and mucus systems to enable equation between laboratories/technicians are included … the WHO have provided an updated methods book readily sought by those interested in sperm and their morphology and function.' Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
'This manual is comprehensive and easy to understand. The methodologies are very detailed, from initial morphology assessments to sperm counts and smear preparations for further microscopy. This is a good manual and I would personally recommend it to any laboratory that performs semen analysis. It would also be a good reference tool in forensic and artificial insemination laboratories.' Isaac Aliche, Canadian Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
'The WHO manual should have a prominent place in the benches of all laboratories dealing with human semen and on the shelves of clinicians dealing with subfertile couples … The new fourth edition, or the 'gold book' as I am sure it will be called, will then continue to be the benchmark for setting more rigorous standards in the future.' J. Diane Critchlow, Human Fertility
'This manual is comprehensive and easy to understand. The methodologies are very detailed, from initial morphology assessments to sperm counts and smear preparations for further microscopy. This is a good manual and I would personally recommend it to any laboratory that performs semen analysis. It would also be a good reference tool in forensic and artificial insemination laboratories.' Isaac Aliche, Canadian Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
'The WHO manual should have a prominent place in the benches of all laboratories dealing with human semen and on the shelves of clinicians dealing with subfertile couples … The new fourth edition, or the 'gold book' as I am sure it will be called, will then continue to be the benchmark for setting more rigorous standards in the future.' J. Diane Critchlow, Human Fertility
Présentation de l'éditeur
This definitive and essential source of reference has been thoroughly up-dated and revised to meet the requirements of all laboratories involved in the analysis of human semen. The book sets out the fundamental laboratory techniques that should be employed in the diagnosis of male infertility. The text includes descriptions of how to construct a conventional semen profile and provides standardized protocols for performing several optional diagnostic procedures. Such techniques are essential in the evaluation of infertile couples and in assessing fertility in men whose sperm production is suppressed by potential anti-fertility compounds or by toxic agents: they are also of interest in forensic medicine and in connection with artificial insemination. Previous editions of this volume have established themselves as the gold standard in the area of fertility investigation and treatment: this new edition continues that tradition and will be the benchmark for setting more rigorous standards for future years.
